2 hours. this hearing of this senate foreign relations committee will come to order . assistant secretary, we re glad to welcome you in your role and i m glad you finally made it and most importantly we are happy that you re here . thank you for coming before us today. assistant secretary of defense, thank you for coming back to the committee as i m sure many know the assistant secretary was our middle east expert for a while so we are glad to see her back. i have been asking a simple but important question for some time i hope this hearing will answer. what is the administrations strategy on syria? during the last presidential election secretary lincoln road when joe biden is president we will restore us leadership on humanitarian issues. and yet with the frozen conflict in syria leading to immense humanitarian political security dilemmas the leadership from theunited states or elsewhere seems lacking . like lights in syria are resuming.embassies and damascus are reopening
Should ever have to live throu through. Reporter no, dawn, one too many are facing. Absolutely the case. Kids literally dodging bullets on almost daily basis and their parents frankly panic stricken the mere thought of letting their children walk out the front door. The city streets down the 3100 block of sheraton on this day after. But it could not walk away the stain of violence that nearly claimed two more young lives. I was crying. She was crying. Reporter it was around 6 30 monday night when 12yearold sanchez they call her jew jew and her best friend nineyearold lindsay were leaving a grocery at cleveland and marshall when nearby argument turned violent. 19 shots fired from Assault Rifle and semiautomatic handgun the girls caught in the middle. Jew jew took two shots to the thigh. Lindsay got a face full of glass from a shattered door. Like somebody poked you extra hard. Reporter how much did that hurt . Like on scale one to 10 it was like a 10. Now its an eight. You got hit with
Gold. There you have it, thank you. Lets get right to the weather and the traffic. This morning potentially they have to be related, sue. Yes, a lot going on this morning, including the rain thats moving through our area right now, and few thunderstorms, we will take closer look at exactly where. See parts of ocean county, burlington county, Atlantic County getting most of the heavy rain, more heavy rain moving into new castle county, this morning, so we see round in delaware, some heavy rain trenton, seeing some heavy rain, ease up for the moment in philadelphia. More in the forecast. Fine your umbrella, probably havent used in quite a while. Bring it with you today. 8mile per hour winds, 93 relative humidity, 64 degrees mount pocono, 73 Atlantic City, 75 in dover. Some Poor Visibility because of this rain. That will will slow you down. Just take it east think morning. 84 degrees our high temperature. Heatwave is over, and we have some sun popping out later on in the day, but also mor
The head of the unions tell me that grievances for the six the city. Now the city has 20 dice respond before it goes to arbitration. We are going to fight every ounce of it because this is not this is not right. It is not right. Union strongly defended the detective involved in that 2012 chase. We fired our guns because they used the car as a Deadly Weapon and we have a right to defend ourselves and go home to our families period. Two people drove their car in the crowd of officers leaving police to believe they were under fire. They say we placed ourselves in that situation. Does anybody in this room buy that . He called this incident a systemic failure from the top and points the blame at former chief mike mcgrath and the savior and he says the officers are restricted from doing theyre job. It is politics 101 and we see it across the country and here in cleveland. I asked steve loomis if the officers and, detectives feel any sense of remorse or regret believes nothing criminal happen
Ted cruz wins the republican caucuses in iowa and defeats the frontrunner donald trump but the margin on the democratic side is less than half a percentage point, welcome to your world this morning, im rochelle carry. And im del walters and cruz calling his victory a win for courageous conservatives but on the democratic side it is as tight as a tick. Lets look at the latest numbers with 99 of precincts reporting and cruz has 28 of the vote. Donald trump came in second and rubio very close behind in third, for the democrats clinton is holding a very narrow lead, less than 1 point and no winner has been declared yet. Al jazeera michael shore is live in des moines, iowa and expecting both of these races to be close for the democrats it still is. Yes, del absolutely its close front the republicans too but half a percentage point and the des moines paper of record saying cruz prevails and the democrats in a dead heat and its where Bernie Sanders kept catching up as you watch percentages bu